EPISODE · Aug 27, 2019 · 27H 32M
Listen to In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950–1953 by John Toland
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950–1953 Author: John Toland Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 27, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In this brilliant narrative of America’s first limited war, John Toland shows yet again why, for over two decades, he has been one of this country’s most respected and popular military historians. Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves, employing scrupulous archival research and interviews as the bases for the drama and accuracy of his writing. In Mortal Combat reveals Mao’s prediction of the date and place of MacArthur’s Inchon landing, Russia’s indifference to the war, Mao’s secret leadership of the North Korean military, and the true nature of both sides’ treatment and repatriation of POWs. In addition to being the first Westerner to gain access to Chinese records and combatants, Toland interviewed numerous North and South Korean veterans and over two hundred members of the American military, many of whom had never been approached before. The result is a signal work of compelling readability and lasting importance.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950–1953 Author: John Toland Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 27, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In this brilliant narrative of America’s first limited war, John Toland shows yet again why, for over two decades, he has been one of this country’s most respected and popular military historians. Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves, employing scrupulous archival research and interviews as the bases for the drama and accuracy of his writing. In Mortal Combat reveals Mao’s prediction of the date and place of MacArthur’s Inchon landing, Russia’s indifference to the war, Mao’s secret leadership of the North Korean military, and the true nature of both sides’ treatment and repatriation of POWs. In addition to being the first Westerner to gain access to Chinese records and combatants, Toland interviewed numerous North and South Korean veterans and over two hundred members of the American military, many of whom had never been approached before. The result is a signal work of compelling readability and lasting importance.
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